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I am trying to install emacs on my profile in the remote machine (I am not in the sudoers list). I downloaded the tar file and unzipped it, ran ./configure and then did make. When I do make install, it needs permissions to access /usr/local/share/emacs which I don’t have. I was wondering if there exists an alternative way to install emacs.
I cannot run apt-get install as I do not have admin permissions on the remote machine.
You need the
--prefixargument to./configure. Like./configure --prefix=/home/YOU/local/emacsor whatever path makes sense that you have write access to. Then run make and make install. Run./configure --helpfor more information.